RSS FeedBring On The Pasta…Carmine’s (425 7th St NW)
We’ve posted about Carmine’s before and put up a Twitpic over the last weekend. The day has finally arrived for Carmine’s 20,000 square foot Italian restaurant to open at 425 7th St NW and that day is today for the dinner service according to both Urban Daddy and Thrillist. We’re now quite sure that this space will not be a grocery store. Bring on the pasta (and chianti).
Editor’s Note: The Washington City Paper also weighed in on Carmine’s opening tonight.
What About That Old Post Office Pavilion?
Today we introduce a guest writer, PQ’er, who lives in the heart of our very own Penn Quarter and took notice of the Pavilion at the Old Post Office building on Pennsylvania Avenue for her first story.
We always wondered when we passed by the East Atrium of the Old Post Office Pavillion (OPOP) (1100 Pennsylvania Ave NW) why had it been abandoned. If you look through the glass doors, it looks like it could be a great indoor mini-mall (similar to the indoor mini-mall on M Street NW in Georgetown). We finally called the OPOP to ask about the atrium, but the lady who answered the phone didn’t have any answers and in fact said, “there’s no need for it.” She then transferred us to, we believe, the general manager of the OPOP. We asked him a few questions about the atrium, but he said we had to call the General Services Administration (GSA) as he didn’t know anything about it such as: Why did it close down? Were there any plans to renovate it? We found a few articles about it, but not much. Apparently Cineplex wanted to open a theater there years ago but the deal fell through. See the photos below…we really wish they would open up the atrium with new shops!
DC Link Roundup: Heard In The ‘Hood
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Here’s what we were reading last week about neighborhood news in DC. Have neighborhood thoughts? Leave them in the comments!
Penn Quarter – Ever heard of the The Palais Royal? No, it’s not like Good Guys on Wisconsin Avenue. It was a king sized department store downtown in yesteryear. [Streets of Washington]
Mount Vernon Triangle – A five week summer Asian film series starts tonight at the parking lot at 5th and Eye Streets NW. [The Triangle]
National Mall – One writer’s view on constructing a National Latino museum. [The Internationalist]
Southwest – The former CVS in-a-trailer next to the Waterfront Metro station is now a CVS in-a-storefront. With both 4th Street SW and the renovated Safeway open, that part of DC is looking a lot newer. [Southwest…The Little Quadrant That Could]
A Little Lighter On The Left Side
“This is the worst dude to dude news there is,” said the urologist as he cupped my left testicle, “I’m 95 percent certain that’s cancer.”
Exactly one week after hearing those words, that same doctor removed my cancer, and my left testicle with it.
It may not sound like it, but I was lucky. I caught the cancer myself during what doctors would call self-examination, but most others would consider the Al Bundy method of watching TV. And while you never want to hear the word cancer, the diagnosis wasn’t a total surprise. When you feel a lump on one of the boys, the only lottery you’ve won is the kind Shirley Jackson wrote about. But as I said I was lucky; I found it early and testicular cancer is extremely curable. I’m also lucky because I have great insurance which allowed me to skip my general practitioner (a great guy, but I knew I needed a specialist) and go right to the urologist without a referral.
My prognosis is great and my attitude has stayed pretty positive throughout this ordeal. I’ve endured both surgery and follow-up cancer therapy, so far so good. This diagnosis did once again point out to me what a great neighborhood PQ is, both in terms of location (I never knew we had such easy access to medical specialists) and the way my neighbors all pitched in to do whatever they could.